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young princes are not found in T. The facts relating to the royal success­
ion in T 29 are again almost identical with those given in A 35—36. The
two palace revolutions which are described in some detail in A 36—42
are greatly reduced in T 30—31, but then again the royal succession
described in A 42 finds an exact parallel in T 32. On the other hand,
the long story about the relationship between Patani and Sai in A 42—46
is contracted into one single line at the end of T 32. The sequel to the
story of the murder of Raja Bima (A 46—48) is lacking in T. Then
again we find a number of stories about the queens of Patani, their rule
and their succession in A 49—51 which find a relatively close parallel in
T 33—35a. The story of the marriage of Raja Kuning to Phaya Deca is
told in both texts, though with some differences which may be significant.
Then T dismisses in one line the marriage of Raja Kuning to the Sultan
of Johore, whose visit to Patani, resulting in his marriage, is described
in great detail in A 52—54. Whereas A 54—58 devotes a great deal of
space to the expedition of the Siamese army against Patani, ending in
its defeat, in T it is described in a paragraph of ten lines (T 36). Then,
in a more or less similar description, both texts give some details on the
reign of Raja Kuning (A 58, T 37a), although nothing is found in T of
the long story of Patani’s dealings with the princes of Johore (A 59—71).
The subsequent court intrigue around Raja Kali occurs in both texts,
though it is considerably shorter in T (A 71b—73, T 37b). The story
of the death of the last ruler of the inland dynasty and the events which
follow it seems to be basically the same in both texts (A 74, T 38—39).
The information about the first three kings of the Kalantan dynasty is
essentially the same in both texts (A 74—75, T 40), but A (end of
74—76) adds details about a few other kings who interrupted Baginda’s
reign which T passes over in silence. The information about Sultan
Alung Yunus in the two texts has some close similarities, but also some
interesting differences (T 41—42, A 77—78). As mentioned above, T 43,
the story of the devastation of Patani by the Thai army, has no clear
parallel in A, even though Datuk Pujut is mentioned repeatedly in the
final part of A (A 76, 78, 86—87).
From the above comparison a few tentative conclusions concerning
the relationship between A and T seem possible:

(a) Essentially the Malay Hikayat and the Thai version represent the
same text. This is clear from the overall correspondence between the two
texts as well as from a great many strikingly similar details and even
from a few differences which can hardly be explained otherwise than as